Journalism Quotes - Page 10

• I don't think there's any connection between my journalism career and my film career. They are two totally different mediums and very different skills.

  Greg Kinnear

  Thinking, Skills, Careers

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• Folks, Brian Williams isn't the exception. He's exactly what they've taught us to expect from them all. It's not journalism any more - it's entertainment, it's celebrity, it's agendas and it's money. All too often, a lie is now an acceptable way of communicating. To the media, a lie has as much value as the truth.

  Wayne LaPierre

  Lying, Media, Taught Us

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• The difference between fiction and journalism is that you can disguise the characters, so you won't get your legs broken, and there's no interview tapes to transcribe.

  Sylvie Simmons

  Character, Differences, Broken

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I think the worst thing we can do is to concede to fanaticism its devotion, say. Well, you have to understand, these people are really fanatics, so we should back down from them. I think if journalists start doing that then they won't be practicing journalism. If satirists start doing that then they won't be practicing satire.

  Adam Gopnik

  Thinking, People, Devotion

  "Charlie Hebdo, The Licensed Anarchist Clowns Of French Society". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. January 2, 2016.

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• I grew up in newsrooms. I've been in newsrooms since I was 17 years old. Journalism has been like my church; it's been like my identity.

  Jose Antonio Vargas

  Years, Church, Identity

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The tremendous challenge of narrative journalism about subjects that are underreported is, how do you make people care about something they think they already know about, or think they don't need to know about?

  Sarah Stillman

  Thinking, People, Challenges

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Poetry allows me to write about what I don't know, whereas journalism demands a higher level of certainty to be worthy of being written.

  Eliza Griswold

  Writing, Levels, Demand

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• You can't be wrong in journalism. Take a wrong turn in journalism, and you are writing fiction. You can take a wrong turn in poetry, and something wonderful can happen.

  Eliza Griswold

  Writing, Fiction, Wonderful

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Which is one of the dangers of immersion journalism: you can find yourself getting sucked into battles you have nothing to do with, in this case an ongoing battle between Muslims.

  Annia Ciezadlo

  Finding Yourself, Battle, Ongoing

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The fun thing about journalism is if you go do a story about something, you can now ask three intelligent questions about it. Or say three intelligent things. And that gets people talking.

  Joel Stein

  Fun, Intelligent, Talking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• As journalism dies, I kind of feel like I want some skills besides writing. I'd like to be able to write movies or host TV shows or whatever. Things that I might actually not inherently like quite as much, but are interesting and fun things to do. A good backup plan.

  Joel Stein

  Fun, Writing, Skills

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The lessons learned in journalism also apply. Writing for NPR has taught me to cut a piece in half and then in half again - without losing the essence. Apply that to the swollen prose of a bulky novel and you might reveal a beautiful work.

  Julianna Baggott

  Beautiful, Writing, Cutting

  Interview with Roxane Gay, therumpus.net. May 11, 2012.

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• I write about how I was attracted to stripping because I didn't feel comfortable with my body, for instance, but there could be plenty of not-so-good reasons why I chose to go into journalism, too. Maybe someone had a trauma in childhood and it led them to become a nurse, or a lawyer, but because people stigmatize sex work they try to find a traumatic moment in your past and say, "There!"

  Craig Seymour

  Sex, Writing, Past

  Source: therumpus.net

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• In my second year of Harvard Divinity School, where I was studying to be a minister like my father, I met a guy named Robert Cox, who had been the editor of the Buenos Aires Herald during the Dirty War in Argentina. Bob used to print the names of those who had been disappeared the day before, above the fold in his newspaper. It was a kind of an awakening to me to see what great journalism can and should do.

  Chris Hedges

  War, Father, Dirty

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. July 14, 2011.

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• WikiLeaks combines several of my prior interests in technology, policy questions, and journalism.

  Charles Ferguson

  Technology, Wikileaks, Interest

  Interview with Ed Rampell, progressive.org. November 28, 2011.

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• I hated the culture [working in the bank], I hated the work. I very quickly realized that this wasn't what I wanted to do. So, after two years, I took some writing courses - I always loved to write - and I figured the only way I was going to get paid to write was in journalism.

  Sharif Abdel Kouddous

  Writing, Years, Two

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• I really wasn't very involved politically with anything up until that point. Then I started reading about the second Palestinian Intifada, and I spoke to friends in activist and journalism circles. Then, somehow by complete luck, I ended up at Democracy Now.

  Sharif Abdel Kouddous

  Reading, Circles, Luck

  Interview with Matthew Rothschild, progressive.org. May 9, 2011.

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• Journalism is a great profession. It's complicated now. People talk about the demise of investigative reporting. I was a judge in some award contest recently, and the stuff that is being done by major newspapers, and local, regional papers around the country, is great. Newspapers play an amazing role in our society, and I still think they are important. I'm sorry newspaper circulation is down. Ultimately, the importance of newspapers can't be replaced.

  Seymour Hersh

  Country, Sorry, Thinking

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• Also, and this may sound naïve, but since my early days in journalism, I've felt that getting as close as possible to truth, revealing the reality of a situation in detail, has its own persuasive power. This allows readers to look at the facts and the perspectives presented and draw informed conclusions.

  Sheri Fink

  Reality, Perspective, Sound

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Of course, no matter how hard we try to be objective as reporters, our life experiences and personal circumstances influence our journalism, including the choice of topics we pursue.

  Sheri Fink

  Choices, Trying, Matter

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• That being said, even if we cannot achieve it, journalism that strives toward objectivity and fairness has an important place in our society. So, too, does being honest and open when presenting our own opinions, as you do so well in your book

  Sheri Fink

  Book, Objectivity, Important

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• There is a very big difference between American and British travel journalism, and that's this whole business of the assisted or freebie trip. In Britain we are unashamed about any travel company paying for you to go and then writing about it. That's the only way we can do it. But I have tried the same in the States, and I can't write for any sizeable American newspaper because they tell you to do it on this basis.

  John Gimlette

  Writing, Differences, Way

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

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• I think the deepest thing is that many fiction writers tell stories but are not elegant writers. But, we're not writing journalism when we're making literature.

  Edward Hirsch

  Writing, Thinking, Fiction

  "Poets v. Prose Writers". Big Think interview, bigthink.com.

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• Sports has become such a big business that the line between journalism and being a broadcast partner for all intents and purposes has been obliterated.

  Dave Zirin

  Sports, Purpose, Lines

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• I've talked about how the future of journalism will be a hybrid future where traditional media players embrace the ways of new media (including transparency, interactivity, and immediacy) and new media companies adopt the best practices of old media (including fairness, accuracy, and high-impact investigative journalism).

  Arianna Huffington

  Believe, Player, Impact

  "Huffington hits out at Murdoch speech" by Mercedes Bunz, www.theguardian.com. December 2, 2009.

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